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Chapter 7. Immigrants and Demography : Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 315-374). 2015
, disruption, and adaptation. While all three mechanisms can be present concurrently, age at immigration influences their relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025476
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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in … marital patterns by education for men. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937272
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Immigrants and demography : marriage, divorce, and fertility
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014
This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250042
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316256
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Immigrants and Demography : Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
Adserà, Alícia - 2014
This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057911
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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345876
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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568812
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of...
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Social Norms and Fertility
Myong, Sunha - 2018
We first document three stylized facts about marriage and fertility in East Asian societies: They have the highest marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest total fertility, but almost all married women have at least one child. By contrast, almost no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912228
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Consequences of War : Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227184